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18 July 2012
Tolpuddle festival shows fightback needed today
Every year trade unionists make their way to the village of Tolpuddle in Dorset to mark the imprisonment and release of six agricultural labourers in the 1830s, writes Sean Brogan, Exeter Socialist Party.
20 July 2011
Tolpuddle says: 'step up the action'
This year's Tolpuddle Martyrs festival saw a record 10,000 people brave the rain to celebrate the victory of the early trade union movement against draconian attempts to stop workers from organising to defend their living standards, writes Tom Baldwin.
13 July 2011
Theatre review: The Tolpuddle Martyrs story is one of enduring importance, especially in times like these. From a Spark to a Flame is a production dealing with the six farm labourers who, in 1832, dared to organise
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